• Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    My favorite trademark story is how McDonald’s lost the rights to the name Big Mac in Ireland due to an existing trademark

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      10 months ago

      What’s next about that is if they had activity bothered to treat the case seriously and bumbled their paperwork so hard the judge ruled against them.

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      10 months ago

      This happened in Australia too, that’s why we have hungry jacks and not burger king

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      10 months ago

      Not just Ireland, southern Ireland is EU so they lost it in the whole of Europe

      The BK near me was offering King Macs for a while just to take the piss